Greater Colombian colors

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Greater Colombia (excluding Panama)

The Greater Colombian colors are yellow-blue-red; which are carried in the national flags of the South American states Venezuela (see also flag of Venezuela ), Colombia (see also flag of Colombia ) and Ecuador (see also flag of Ecuador ).

The colors yellow-blue-red have their origin in the fight for freedom against the Spaniards, which General Francisco de Miranda fanned in Venezuela in 1810 under a yellow-blue-red flag. The revolutionary colors became the colors of the Greater Colombian Republic founded by Simon Bolivar in 1819 , which was made up of Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador and lasted until 1830. Nevertheless, the now independent individual states retained the Greater Colombian colors for their national symbols.

The flags of Colombia and Ecuador are basically the same; In both of the horizontally arranged colored stripes, the upper yellow one is twice as wide as the others; Colombia flies the national flag without a symbol. Ecuador puts its national coat of arms in the middle. Venezuela used eight stars strung together in an arc (originally seven for the seven provinces that signed the Declaration of Independence; since 2006 with an eighth for Guyana according to Simon Bolivar's original proposal).

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See also: Central American colors , Greater Colombia